Foil Gear

With downwind foiling booming all across the globe, Starboard has unveiled two groundbreaking products just in time for two major international Downwind SUP Foil events in France – the Crozon Foil Festival and LAST Les Ailes de Saint Tropez. The Ace Foil Lightning board and the Foil Blade are designed to push the limits of […]

Since our last interview, Indiana Paddle & Surf Co. Rider, Robert von Roll, has firmly established himself as a core figure in the Swiss pump foiling scene, backed by the constant support of his surfer/foiler family. Living in landlocked Solothurn, Switzerland, hasn’t slowed him down—in fact, it’s fuelled his determination to push even harder. Now, at […]

Starboard has just made a bold statement in the world of downwind foiling with the launch of two new game-changing products: the Ace Foil Lightning board and the Foil Blade. These two releases are designed to work hand-in-hand, offering top-tier performance and accessibility for serious downwind foilers, making a significant impact on the SUP foiling […]

SIC MAUI, has announced the release of its latest innovation, the KŪNALU. This new downwind SUP, Wingfoil and light wind foil board is touted as SIC MAUI’s most performance-driven foil board to date. Available in limited quantities, the KŪNALU 7’11 and Slash HAR 1100 FW are already on the market, with pre-orders open for the […]

From championship-level inline skating to world record pump foiling, Nicolas Iten’s story is the one of relentless dedication and skill. In an astonishing span of few weeks, this driven athlete and Indiana Paddle & Surf Co. Team Rider from Switzerland, managed to beat his first record in long distance pump foiling (36km in 2:39 hours) […]

From surfing to stand-up paddleboarding, wing, SUP and pump foiling, Bavaria-based waterman Manuel Stecher, has tested it all! Nowadays the options in terms of equipment seem limitless but Manuel sticks to one simple hack: “Choose gear that fits best to your local spot.” TotalSUP caught up with the seasoned surfer-turned-frequent-flyer (proving that being land-locked does […]

Il y a bientôt un an déjà, Raphaël et César Filippi nous présentaient la gamme 2023 des planches à foil de chez Fanatic. Depuis, Fanatic, côté foil, est devenu Duotone, et tout un tas de nouvelles boards ont été lancées, pour le wingfoil, le surf foil et, bien sûr, pour le SUP foil. Si Fanatic […]

New gear, new sizes or upgrades, the 2024 Stand Up Paddle Range by Starboard is out! What’s new in the 2024 Starboard SUP lineup? – Ace Foil – a downwind foil board inspired from the famous Ace – Starboard Gen R – the flat deck race board is back! – X-15 Foilboard – a board […]

If there’s one more thing that can be said about the SIC Gorge Paddle Challenge, one of the most compelling SUP races in our sport held on the 21-23 July 2023 in Hood River, Oregon, is that it transforms SUP athletes. Sooner rather than later they will come back and compete as foilers. In the […]

Le SUP foil downwind, ça vous tente ? Vous imaginez ça comme une discipline très élitiste ? C’est vrai, ça peut impressionner. Mais, pour en savoir plus, nous avons interrogé un rider à la progression incroyable : Romain Simonnot. À 27 ans, Romain ne se destinait pourtant pas à faire du SUP foil. Originaire de […]

Gunnar Biniasch, Indiana Paddle & Surf Co. Rider, the brand’s foil board designer and the Wingfoil World Champion, has been taking podium after podium on the the international wing foil racing scene and the season has just started brewing! On top of competing and being heavily involved in Indiana’s R&D processes, he’s advocating for SUP […]

It was highly anticipated: discover the new range of foil from Fanatic, the Aero Glide! A very High Aspect Ratio frontwing (between 9.5 and 9.3) that was missing from the brand’s foil range and that we were impatiently waiting for. With the Aero Glide: speed, downwind and infinite glide are yours! From surf foil to […]

“Our Blackfish Nootka blade is a classic shape and a best-selling paddle. We have been working on building a more robust version for a couple years and the breakthrough came with the advent of SUP foiling. We had a number of athletes who had broken paddles while foiling and wanted to find a solution. The result […]

On ne présente plus Clément Colmas : aussi à l’aise avec une pagaie qu’avec une wing dans les mains, sa saison 2022 aura été riche en évènements de wingfoil et de SUP Race, et avec des rebondissements ! Entre blessure, remplacement, EuroSUP, APP, Championnats de France et du Monde ICF… et de belles médailles et […]